The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is a tight-knit community of professional filmmakers in Brooklyn, NY who are dedicated to innovative approaches to filmmaking. The collective comes together through weekly peer workshops to provide sustained feedback and critiques throughout the life of its members' projects. It is the mission of the BFC to inspire groundbreaking films and maximize exposure of the best work from Brooklyn-based filmmakers.

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Matylda Kawka

Born in Poland and a resident of Brooklyn since 2013, Matylda is a film director and editor. She began making films when she was 16 and won a lot of prizes with short documentary films. Before going to film school she graduated from the University of Poznan, where she specialized in gender studies. An alumna of the Polish National Film School, Matylda has written and directed five fiction short films, as well as several documentary works. She also edited two feature documentaries. Her short narrative film, Forever Mine, was screened at major international film festivals including Cannes.

Member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, she is currently working on her first feature documentary film, TransStory, about a couple in their forties on the path of gender transition.